Day 46

Objective:  The students will read Act II of the play.

1.  WP Number _____

2.  Act II Reading

3.  Monte Cristo Chapter Chapter 40.

Day 45

Objective:  The students will read Act 1.

1.  WP Number ______

2.  Read Act 1

3.  Read MC 38-39

Day 44

Objective:  The students will do some character analysis before we read the play.

1.  Discuss Monte Cristo Chapter 36:  Toxicology.

2.  Twelve Angry Men:  Discuss vocabulary definitions.  Turn in.

3.  Twelve Angry Men Characters:  Get out two different colored highlighters.

4.  Read Chapter 37:  The Rise and Fall of Stocks.  I will explain it to you.

Day 43

Objective:  The students will know important trial terms for our play that we will read.

1.  Talk about the MC Chapters (period 5 you get a quiz).  Add new characters to Character Chart.  Madame Villefort, Edward, and Valentine.

2.  Twelve Angry Men vocab. 

3.  Read Chapter 36.  Toxicology.  Try to figure out what the Count is trying to get Madam Villefort to do.

Day 42

Objective:  The students will write a great AP paragraph.

1.  Get out the MC Study Guide.  Let me see it.

1b:  Period 5 Quiz

2.  AP Writing:  The Treasure Metaphor: In Chapter 32, The Count of Monte Cristo discusses his wealth with Danglars.  This is a very important metaphor.  In a paragraph, explain it.

3.  Read MC 34-35

Day 41

Objective:  The students will practice writing an AP quality paragraph.

1.  MC Quiz 31

2.  AP Style Writing:  "The Presentation" paragraph.  Answer te following in a great paragraph:

Does Mercedes know that the Count of Monte Cristo is Dantes when she meets him for the first time after a 23 year absence from her life?

3.  Monte Cristo Chapters 32-33 reading:  Think:  Dantes does not want to kill his enemies (or he already would have).  What do you think he is going to do?

Day 40

Objective:  The students will see/hear an example of a perfect five songs for a Soundtrack.

1.  Discuss Chapter 30 MC

2.  Monte Cristo Song Quiz

3.  Work on Project

4.  Chapter 31:  The Count "meets" Fernand and Mercedes and Study Guide 

Voting for Homecoming Royalty will end today after second period. For those of you that teach freshmen, they may need more support in how this works.  At the beginning of second period, please allow students to log in at the following link:

mlk.voting4schools.com

Login is their student ID 

Password is their birthday with no zero in the password. For example, July 3, 2010 will be 7/3/2010.

Day 39

Objective:  The students will finish their creative voice writing.

1. MC Quiz 29 and discuss

2.  Complete creative voice writing.  This should be a fun activity.  This is also a two-day assignment.  DO NOT USE Snap AI, Chatgpt, or any other cheat!  Use your brain!

3.  Read Monte Cristo Chapter 30 and finish study guide

 

Day 38

Objective:  The students will do a bit of creative voice writing.

1.  Discuss Monte Cristo Chapter 28 (Period 5 you have a quiz).

2.  Open up the new assignment that I put in your Google Classroom.  Let's talk about what you are going to do.  Then be creative!  This should be a fun activity.  This is also a two-day assignment.  DO NOT USE Snap AI, Chatgtp, or any other cheat!  Use your brain!

3.  Read Monte Cristo Chapter 29:  Know what happens to Albert and think about who set it up and why.

Day 37

Objective:  The students will analyze the short story.

1.  WP Number ______

2.  Discuss Monte Cristo Chapters from last night:  26-27

3.  Finish The Secret Lion Work

4.  Read Monte Cristo Chapter 28

WP “The Secret Lion”

      In the short story, “The Secret Lion”, the author uses 2 distinct types of diction. And he accomplishes this by writing as if he was in jr. high school. Run-on sentences and specific word choice is evidence of his intended, child-like, thought process. The narrator comes to the realization that fate is ultimately not inescapable through his experiences with the four symbols of the story.

 

 

Day 36

Objective:  The students will finish reading The Secret Lion.

1.  MC Quiz 24-25

2.  Discuss and talk about the tone change at the end of the chapter.

3.  Read the first two paragraphs of Chapter 26.  Then fill out timeline and character list.

4.  Finish The Secret Lion

5.  Read MC Chapters 26-27 tonight.